Just CLI for Agents + Worktrees + Env

While looking to simplify developing using convex, lowering latency and avoiding using actual data when I can avoid it, I checked out Developing with the Open-Source backend. Turns out we can use conved-local-backend. 🎉 But it also mentioned Just.

just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands.

I am starting to work with multiple agents running simultaneously but not in worktrees. I already used worktrees extensively when developing multiple features manually, but I have since switched over to using agents primarily. One thing I wanted was a simple way to spin up the environment for each agent. I like the way just handles it.

build:
  make web

serve:
  python3 -m http.server -d out 8000

Then call both in one go.

$ just build serve
make web
python3 -m http.server -d out 8000

pnpm run commands are available in the context of OpenAI’s Codex app but this looks like it can simplify running both one-off commands and more complex sequences and combinations.